Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Tomoaki Mizusaki

Shinya Kamimura

Sachiko Yoshida

Tadashi Itoh

Tatsunari Imazato

A vehicle body includes a rear opening and a rear header. The rear header includes a first and a second rear header panel. A closed cross-section space is defined by the first and the second rear header panels. The vehicle body includes a reinforcing member that is disposed in the closed cross-section space. The first and the second rear header panels each include a first portion extending downward in the vehicle up-down direction and a second portion bending from a lower end of the first portion and extending rearward in the vehicle front-rear direction. The reinforcing member is disposed in a region in which the first portion of the first rear header panel and the first portion of the second rear header panel face each other. A space is provided between a lower face of the reinforcing member and the second portion of the first rear header panel.

Vehicle body

A vehicle body may include a rear opening; a rear header extending in a width direction of the vehicle body along an upper edge of the rear opening; a rear pillar extending from an end of the rear header along a side edge of the rear opening; a rear wheelhouse located below the rear pillar; and a rear suspension tower disposed at the rear wheelhouse, wherein a rear suspension is mounted on the rear suspension tower. The rear pillar may include a first portion extending rearward from the end of the rear header; and a second portion bending at a rear end of the first portion and extending downward therefrom. The vehicle body may further include a first frame connecting the rear suspension tower to the rear header; and a second frame connecting a halfway point of the first portion of the rear pillar to the rear wheelhouse.

Growing community of inventors

Nagoya, Japan

Tomoaki Mizusaki